[Seaside] [Q] Any documentation of guide for porting seaside to other Smalltalk system?

[Dale Henrichs]

Sungjin,

I don't know of any porting documentation, but here is a rough outline 
of how to go about doing the port:

   1. As Luka suggests, take a look at the Continuation class and get
      the unit tests to run in GNU smalltalk. Getting Contuations
      working may or may not be a big challenge. At Gemstone, we ended
      up making mods to the vm to get continuations to work.
   2. Once you've got continuations in hand, take a look at
      PackageInfo-Exporters. There's a version on SqueakSource (part of
      Seaside project) that is a good starting point. Write a GNU
      smalltalk exporter that will allow you to file out the Seaside
      package (all classes and extension methods for Seaside) in a form
      acceptable to GNU smalltalk.
   3. File the result into your GNU smalltalk image and resolve the
      filein issues.
   4. Run the Seaside unit tests.
   5. Now you'll need some sort of HTTP server. We are using
      Swazoo/Hyper. You'll need to write some glue code between Seaside
      and your HTTP server. We used Michel Bany's VW glue code as an
      example. We can provide our code as well. Basically the glue code
      transforms the requests and responses from your HTTP server into
      Seaside requests and responses.
   6. If GNU smalltalk doesn't have a HTTP server , you might try
      porting the FastCGI code from Squeak to GNU smalltalk. We just
      recently ported FastCGI to Gemstone so we can give you some
      pointers here. If you don't have a HTTP server in GNU smalltalk
      this is a very good option - you simply transform the FastCGI
      request/responses directly into Seaside request/responses.
   7. At this point you should be able to begin serving seaside web
      pages. Bring up the WAAllTests application (you'll need to
      initiale it first) and start poking around.

This should be enough to get you started. Good luck!

Dale

Sungjin Chun wrote:

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>I want to port seaside to GNU smalltalk - I'm not sure whether this is
>possible or not. My primary objective is to learn network programming in
>smalltak, both squeak and gnu smalltalk(gst).
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>Is there any guide/documentation for this?
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>Thanks in advance.
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